Studio Brief 1 - One Week Book - Part 2

These are our finish proofs for screen printing. there are two sheets as ome is need for both colours. We choose to use mustard yellow and a purple as these two colors jump off the page when used together. 

yellow

purple

 This is the color we used for mustard yellow, we mixed yellow with a bit of green to tone down the yellow. It did look just like a popular brand of mustard.

 This is our final screen once it had been exposed on the UV light vacuum exposer box thing. Once the emulsion was dry of water that was used to wash out the uncured emulsion it was ready to be put in to use.

 We printed the yellow first as we where told we should alway start with the lights color first whenever screen printing more then one colour, then left that to dry. Then we turned the screen around and using registration marks that we had put in the corners of each sheet, we lined up these so the colours match up properly. then printed the Purple.

Once we had printed and used the screen we then had to strip the screen of curd emulsion. To do this you sponge on some stencil stripper then wash it of using a high pressure jet wash, the high pressure jet wash makes sure the mesh is completely free of any old used emulsion.

Safety first as its so dangerous you could die so make sure you're well protected from DEATH.

This is the final screen printed book with the negatives by its side. I was happy with the final outcome to say it was the first time we have screenprinted. I now know the importance of taking care when creating the negative for the screen. as at that point any mistakes that are made will show up on the screen and the final prints will be ruined. 

Studio Brief 1 - One Week Book

We were set the task  to Leeds Central Library to find out factual info about the place, the list we were given was

• Something overheard
• Record of a conversation with someone
• Pick something up and put it in your pocket
• Take a photograph of something
• Drawn architecture/ space
• Drawn objects
• Drawn people (if possible)

These are the dogs or as they are know the Heraldic Beasts thats are found on the stair cases. I found these very interesting as they are strange in there aperians. i spent a little time sketching and looking at they form.

This is the mosaic floor that can be also found on the stair cases at the library. I tried to quickly sketch this but i feel if i had taken a few coloured pencil with me i could of done this al ot quicker and not had to try add lots of little details. 

One of the best looking corridors in the building, I feel it was one of the best looking as it had books lining all the wall space and really makes it feel like a grand library that it is.

         

These are a couple of photos i took of the architecture and little details i found around the library. Whilst looking around  the building it became apparent to me that there is a lot of symmetrical designed features all over the building.

When we arrived we decided that we would spent one hour looking around the building sketchin and taking photos then meet up for lunch in the cafe and discuss ideas we had for a book, and look at what we had all drawn.

Whilst this was going on some of the group had ordered a pot of herbal tea. This came in a silver teapot that we all found nice to draw and when it was opened it was decided that it look nasty like a stinking swamp.




These are some sketches i did whilst sat in the cafe waiting for others to arrive and whilst lunch was eaten.

First scamp drawn my page the book ideas.

We found information on the library at they blog that is run by the heritage group. we had to use the blog as on the day there was no one available to talk to us directly. Here is the link to said blog http://secretlibraryleeds.net/

Shape

We where looking at shape and how simple shapes could create images and illustrations. As with the last task I again struggled to start with on this one but once I started to play around with ideas I feel I produced some ok images.

To start off with I used paint pens to produce the logo fist that is know as the "keep the faith"logo of the northern soul scene. As this logo is a simple design I just changed the fingers to rectangles and for the wrist and arm i used a triangle and square to replicate this.

When you draw figures you start out by drawing the basic shapes of each body part using cylinders and circles. So i thought maybe this could be used in this task. I dosed work i just need to move it forward to maybe collage and see if it still works and or improves it.

A bit of word play with northern written on the soul

People seemed to collect wigan casino badges  and sow them on to adidas bags.

The logo that has and still is used is made up of three different sized circles.










USing coloured paper i created these images by cutting out the desired shapes and sticking them together like a colarge. This proces i feel worked best as the results looked better then my previous efforts.

Tone

Using methods of Cross hatching,Dots, Lines to create shape and tonal qualities. For some reason i struggled with task even tho I practise these methods alot in my previous personal work. I'm not sure if this was down to the images i choose to illustrate and struggled when trying to replicate them. So i ended up with only a few images of minamile quality. I have also included some pages i had abit of a paddy with and covered in ink and words which i then tried to find some areas that had a quality to improve on.

On this image of Tim Armstrong lead man in Rancid a punk band i have used a couple of different line qualities to create tone. this image i feel was the best one i produced as i feel it resembles him.

This is his guitar i just used a little bit of cross hatching on the outside edge to see if i could establish some sort of depth,

A doc martin, used dots to add shading. next tim i do this im going to try a few different sizes of fine liner to see if i can build up the effect and save time and hopefully my 0.05 pen as this method seems to wear them out very quickly

More effort.

I was playing around with a refill bottle of ink and discovered it had a really nice quality when it was used to write fast with. so i wrote the word oi oi oi a few times, as this is a popular word with them punk kids. After i took a 0.005c fine liner and filled up some of the space with some pointillism dots which i feel looked really nice and i will hopefully be able to use the technique again soon.

At the tim i was doing this i was suffering with some pretty mad tooth ache so i drew a tooth using a white paint pen and added some dots to see how it would look.

maybe when doing this again choose images that are more easy to translate as have struggled to create anything that represents the images i have.

OUIL403 Evaluation

1.  Which practical skills and methodologies have you developed within this module and how effectively do you think you are employing them within your own practice?

I now do a lot more development work using roughs and scamps before I decide on a final design I’m going to work on, taking in to consideration colour layout, medium and fonts. Working in the different mediums in the development stage can help me to see which one will better suit the style on the work I’m producing and I feel this gives added practise using the different materials, therefore building my confidence when using them on designs. Also once I find an image I’m happy with I can then work on it in different ways to see which best works, this helps me explore the different ways this image will look from the start of the final design.

2. Which principles/ theories of image making have you found most valuable during this module and how effectively do you think you are employing these within your own practice?

I have used reference material to get my ideas and shapes down on paper to then add and build on top of. Just doing a quick search on the internet or looking in a book can save heaps of time not having to try work out how something looks from memory as it is then in front of you. Scanning or taking photos of my images then editing them in Photoshop to play with colour schemes allows me to see which works best before adding any colour to my final designs. This also saves time and the results are instant with no waste.

3. What strengths can you identify within your submission and how have you capitalised on these?

I found that whilst working on the day in the life brief I really enjoyed the task of working to a story/article as it didn’t give too much of a platform to go wild with random ideas. Although that would have been nice it made me do the obvious and this seemed to work, working on similar designs just with little alterations gave me a greater idea of how the final images were going to look and work together as a series. I also used images to reference from to help me illustrate my ideas better and give them a more life like look.

4. What areas for further development can you identify within your submission and how will you address these in the future?

When drawing up my roughs and scamps I need to start drawing them in the layout of the size the final image will be applied to so I can better see how the finale design is going to look in the correct format. I could do this b drawing a box using the shape of final designs formats and work to those limitations. I feel I need to work on the layout and composition of my designs, as it seems to be something I have never really thought about before this unit. I need to try and work out how best the imagery is going to look and work  out if the images and text are balanced right with the amount of negative space left

5. In what way has this module introduced you to the Ba (Hons) Illustration programme? It has been great starting point as I feel I now have a sense as to what the program is about and what time scale we have to do the different aspects of development to the final design. As well as getting an idea of what I am expected to produce in order to make the next steps not as challenging, leaving more time to perfect my ideas. The only issue I had is putting my work on the blog as it is a whole new system of working for me which at times can be frustrating and time consuming.

Play Play Play

Here are some of my ideas sketches and roughs that i have done to try Illustrate the word SET. When i was first given this word i turned to the dictionary to find meanings of the word. This helped me massively and i got a lot of ideas straight away that I was excited to get down on paper.  I was very happy with this task as i feel by getting off to a good start help me enjoy it.

SunSET

SET of russian dolls

Tried adding some sort of political message as i find it hard to mention russia without try to point out any of they many human rights issues they have.

  ways of adding the pussy riot style balaclava to the russian image.

Added bonus on developing these dolls i learnt how to draw roses which i have wanted to learn to draw for a long time just not had a reason to learn until now.



                SET of Knifes

different knifes set out, many styles of kitchen and outdoors knifes to choose from.

With this one using the letters as a fill to see if you could see it was a knife. 

Set Jelly

 Playing with the word to see which one looks the best, trying different ways of writing it. I found that to make it look like jelly i needed to add "wobbly lines"( scientific name)

Wobbly lines added looks just like jelly.

Used a few different styles of font to see which one worked best in large scale. Even to see if in landscape it worked but i feel with the paper in portrait 

Without "wobbly lines" added they look more like a cloud based font.

Tried to do one in a basic russian font yo see if it worked but I feel the results where less of a im
pact then the jelly ones.

Need to add wobbly lines to give the wobble effect. Looking at many photos of jelly on the internet i then started to try and get the colour sheam right as that is a major part of jelly.

FINAL DESIGNS

If i was to produce this set of posters again i would not use there different types of medium i would do them all in the same, as the colours would all match a lot better and it would resemble  a set alot more. i would also use either a coloured paper or paint a back ground colour that i would apply to all there as i feel that with the sunset image having colour all over it this then makes all the wight negative space on the other two stand out a lot more and makes the poster feel abit empty.
On the russian dolls poster i would make sure i mocked out the design a little better and tried a few more different ways in which the positions of the dolls are done. As i feel this lets the poster down, could of also added more to fill the negative up, which could also give more of a impact when you see the poster.
The jelly set poster i feel turner out the best as it is easy to understand and gets the meaning across well. The only thing that i would say lets it down is the finish as it looks too messy with the brush marks and application of paint been shody.